Doting dad: Amid the scandal, Anthony Weiner took his young son Jordan out near their New York home on Sunday

Stern: Anthony Weiner failed to raise a smile as he strolled through the city with his young son on Sunday

In her tell-all interview, Sydney claims that she was less than impressed when her online lover sent her explicit pictures - and alleges that Bill and Hillary Clinton will be unhappy with her.

And when asked why she was discussing the
affair at all, Sydney said: 'I wouldn't have tried to release it
anonymously in the beginning if I was looking to make money off of it. I
didn't want the attention, I felt like it needed to come out before
the primary; he was doing really well in the polls.

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'It kind of ate me up inside that he had this secret and he was going around lying, saying he was a changed man and everything was different, great and better. The reality was he had just contacted me this April, even if it wasn't a sexual thing. But he had this sexual relationship with me in 2012 and that was after he was telling everyone how changed he was.

'I felt if I didn't speak for myself, someone is going to speak for me.'

Embarrassingly, Weiner shared his thoughts with Sydney on his daily political life and when she asked him which Republican he disliked the most, he replied by saying Sean Hannity from Fox News, adding: 'I was thinking he would respond with like a member of the House he had worked with and he actually said Sean Hannity and that made me laugh because I hate Fox News so I got a kick out of that.

'If I remember correctly, he said he's an a**hole.'

He would just have all kinds of different fantasies. He'd tell her: 'Oh we'd have to keep quiet, we don’t want the neighbors to know, and how would I sneak in and out without anyone knowing?'

Sydney, a political science student, said the subject of a secret pad came up when she mentioned that she was thinking about moving to Chicago.

She said: 'I never asked him for it, I just happened to mention the fact, and he was the one that offered.

'I had brought up the idea that I might want to move to Chicago and I told him someone else had already bid on the condo that I wanted.

'He said, "Oh give me the address, I might know the owner" and said things like 'I'm huge, I can help you', like he has a big name and everyone knows him, he can take care of it and that type of thing.’

When Weiner told Sydney she needed to live in a 'safe area', she replied: 'Well I can't afford a super expensive or $5,000-a-month condo.'

And when asked if Weiner had suggested that he would pay for her apartment, she said: ‘Oh yeah. I think that was part of him wanting to talk to the owner of the building, like he was going to work something out for me. And then that became an on-going fantasy of us meeting up there and what we would do there.

‘We talked about a couple of different ones. The cheapest one was around maybe $3,000 maybe $3,500 and the most expensive one was $5,000 per month. I guess he knows a lot people in Chicago.’

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It is all a far cry from Sydney’s home in Indiana. ‘I think he’d said he’d done some consulting work in Chicago, so he’d have a reason to be there.

‘Obviously, he’d have no reason to be in Southern Indiana, so there’s a difference. From what I understand he would have some kind of work or excuse to be there and away.’

It’s not known whether Weiner actually contacted anyone in Chicago.

‘I would guess probably not, it would be crazy and reckless if he did,’ said Sydney. ‘But I really don’t know. I think it was more of a fantasy.’

It was towards the end of their affair – during which they shared daily explicit phone calls as well as photos – that Weiner offered to get Sydney a job at Politico.

'He asked me to hard delete all our
chats. I said I would and I didn't...I think I was a little paranoid. I
felt like I needed to protect myself'

She revealed: ‘He did mention helping me get a job at Politico. Oddly enough, it was the same day he asked me to delete all of our chats on Facebook, so I felt like he was offering me one thing in return for something else.

‘It was before the Presidential election, a few months before, maybe August. Because he was saying things like, "I know they’re going to have a panel of bloggers talking about what it’s like to live in a swing state to see how people think in swing states before elections".

‘Obviously, I lived in a swing state, so he was suggesting I could be a blogger, but that was another thing he never followed through on – it was only mentioned once.

‘He said something like, “I have a contact, I could put him in touch with you”.

‘It was the same time as he said, “can you do me a solid, can you hard delete all our chats on here”. I don’t even known what hard delete means. I said I would actually, and I didn’t. For one thing, what if someone was to hack into his Facebook and see things, I think I was a little paranoid, he had so many things from me – I didn’t want him to be able to spin it and said it was all her or that type of thing.

The girl most likely to seduce a politician: Sydney Leathers poses with two pals during her school years

Model pupil: Sydney Leathers in her high school year book - before leaving to be home schooled - and partying with a fellow pupil

Sydney, who is now a student at a Bible Belt university, went to Mount Carmel High School until her junior year and then switched to home schooling after being subjected to taunts at school.

She admitted: ‘I did drink in high school and they’d talk about that and really blow it out of proportion, I think a lot of it was maybe girls who liked the boy I was dating and wanted to start trouble. I felt upset by it, I was an emotional teenager, but who isn’t.

'If I were to write a book, it wouldn't
be solely about this. I feel that would be completely ridiculous. I
wouldn't write a book all about this man I had an online relationship
with, it would be a chapter'

‘When you live in a small town, everyone knows each other, everyone talks about every little thing and I was kind of like the big fish in a small pond’, she said: ‘There would be rumors about me, silly stuff, I was one of the more popular girls at school. It was just overwhelming for me at that time. I think I had just turned 17 when I left school, when I finished my home schooling.

‘My dad James taught me, he’s an extremely intelligent man.’

Having confided in a family member and a couple of friends about her relationship with Weiner, Sydney admits they thought it was ‘crazy’.

Indeed, their affair took a new twist when Weiner offered to get Sydney a pass to the Democratic National Convention last year.

She
said: ‘I thought it was really strange. He asked if I was going, I
wasn’t, and he told me to contact someone and use his name as a
reference basically to get a ticket.

‘I never did, as obviously that would not have been smart – it would just have made people ask questions.

Anthony Weiner allegedly told Sydney Leathers to use his name to get a pass to the Democratic National Convention

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‘He wanted to get me a press pass to go, and I never did, because it was a horrible idea. I don’t think he went, he didn’t suggest meeting there. I think he thought it would be something I would enjoy.’

The fall out of the affair is that such that Sydney , who says she has only ever had a few long term relationships – bearing a tattoo of an infinity sign on her ring finger, which she says she is having removed - insists: ‘I’m so glad we didn't have sex, I feel the situation would be a million times worse.

‘I feel sorry for my family and friends more than anything… never again, I've definitely learned my lesson.'

As for the future, Sydney is considering modelling, but says: ‘I’ve always loved to write, so maybe that would be something I would want to do in the future.’

However, dismissively, she added: 'If I were to write a book, it wouldn't be solely about this. I feel that would be completely ridiculous. I wouldn't write a book all about this man I had an online relationship with, it would be a chapter.'